Guardian Programming Reference Summary for pTAL and TAL

Procedure Calls Summary (R-Z)

Guardian Programming Reference Summary for pTAL and TAL—522631-001

8-16

SEGMENT_DEALLOCATE_CHKPT_

Is called by a primary process to deallocate an extended data segment in its backup

process.

error, INT returned value

0 Segment successfully deallocated.

1 Segment deallocated, but an I/O error occurred when writing to the segment's permanent

swap file; error-detail contains the file-system error number.

2 Parameter error; error-detail contains the number of the first parameter found to be

in error, where 1 designates the first parameter on the left.

3 Bounds error.

4 Segment not deallocated; error-detail contains the reason for failure.

segment-id, INT:value input

flags, INT:value input

<0:14> Reserved (specify 0)

<15> = 1 Dirty pages in memory are not to be written to the swap file.

= 0 Dirty pages in memory are to be written to the swap file.

error-detail, INT .EXT:ref:1 output

error := SEGMENT_DEALLOCATE_CHKPT_ ( segment-id

,[ flags ]

,[ error-detail ] );